There was an obscure use case of fallocate of directory inode
in the vfs helper with the comment:
"Let individual file system decide if it supports preallocation
for directories or not."
But there is no in-tree file system that implements fallocate
for directory operations.
Deny an attempt to fallocate a directory with EISDIR error.
This change is needed prior to converting sb_start_write()
to file_start_write(), so freeze protection is correctly
handled for cases of fallocate file and blockdev.
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
fs/open.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 9921f70..f9118f4 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -301,12 +301,10 @@ int vfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
if (S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode))
return -ESPIPE;
- /*
- * Let individual file system decide if it supports preallocation
- * for directories or not.
- */
- if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) &&
- !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+ return -EISDIR;
+
+ if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
return -ENODEV;
/* Check for wrap through zero too */
--
2.7.4